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Topic: What distance from power lines? (Read 2576 times)

I have a nice spot at a produce farm and pretty much free range of where I would like to drop the girls. My problem is that on the south end of the property are large power lines leading to and away a substation. What is a good distance to keep the girls away? I know that large electromagnetic fields mess them up and I want healthy bees, not sluggish ones.

This, of course, has been discussed on other forums at great length. You'll have to make your own decision. Some think EMFs have no effect on bees. Others think it has a major effect. I have no experience myself with high voltage lines. If it's not a high voltage line, I wouldn't worry one way or the other.

walk towards the lines with a compasssee if the EMF from the lines is stronger than the earths magnetic fieldif not, don't sweat itI've got friends with a big one running thru a field behind their house and if you go out there with a florescent tube it will light up :shock: there's gotta be a way to run the house off that thing

well it draws power by inductionthat's how a generator makes electricity, spin a loop of wire in a magnetic field, or hold a loop of wire in an alternating magnetic field.as for how they would catch you, I think some kind of inspector would have to come by (which they do, maintenance people) I don't think they could detect that remotely, there are lots of losses anyway

Yeah I know moving wires through a magnetic field generated electricity. And this is what I don't understand. The magnetic field is there already. Let us say the power lines are thirty feet up and you drag a wire through this field about body level.

You are saying that this not only would generate electricity through the wire, but that it will draw power from the power company that could possible be measured? (If they wanted to measure such a thing)

I thought the magnetic field was already the power being lost, and a wire there was just capturing the lost power, not sucking more power.

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now we're WAY off topicyou don't have to move the wirethe field is movingit changes polarity 60 times a secondand that generates AC current in the wireit actually creates 44,000 volts if you only have 1 loopbut almost no currentit'll make a heck of a spark but won't hurt youyou can amaze your friends and frighten small children 8) 2 loops = 22,00 volts4 loops = 11,000 voltsget out a calculator and you can make 120 volt house currentthey couldn't detect the small amout you'd borrow by seeing the losses, but they'd find you with their spy satellites

As mentioned, the electricity is already moving. It doesn't require any further movment. You aren't generating the electricy, just inducing the current to flow in a different wire that is affected by the flow in the powerline. The coil would be the way to not only get more current, but the proper voltage.

I have heard of it being done and the power company did notice. Eventually.